Name Report For First Name PANT:
PANT
First name PANT's origin is Arthurian Legend. PANT means "father of lancelot". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PANT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pant.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arthurian Legend) with PANT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PANT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PANT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PANT AS A WHOLE:
panthea sacripant panteleimonNAMES RHYMING WITH PANT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ant) - Names That Ends with ant:
yervant escorant gallehant rhongomyant agramant lorant creissant anant bliant brant briant bryant calogrenant conant grant oliphant rhodant valiant clarissant meleagant durant durrantRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nt) - Names That Ends with nt:
moraunt kent bent toussaint devent advent arnt brent clint derwent diamont dumont flint flynt fremont frimunt graent hunt lamont laurent osmont pierrepont toussnint trent vincent waldmunt pierpont avent jacint millicent crescent geraint innocent sargent trevrizent delmont quent quintNAMES RHYMING WITH PANT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pan) - Names That Begins with pan:
pan panagiota panagiotis pancho pancratius pandara pandareos pandarus pandora pannoowau panphila pansy panyaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pa) - Names That Begins with pa:
paaveli paavo pabla pablo pacho pachu'a paciencia paco pacorro padarn paddy paden padgett padma padraic padraig padraigin padriac padric padruig paegastun paeivi paella pafko pag page paget pahana paharita paien paige paili paine paislee paiton paityn pajackok paki pakuna pakwa palaemon palamedes palassa palba palban paliki pall pallatin pallaton palmer palmere palmira paloma palomydes palsmedes palt-el palti pamela pamuy pamuya paola paolo papan papandr paquita parfait paris parisch park parke parker parkin parkins parkinson parlan parle parmis parnall parnel parnell parnella parounag parr parrish parsa parsefal parsiNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PANT:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 't':
pat payat payatt pazit pert phelot pit plat platt preost preostcot preruet prescot prescott prewitt priest pruet pruitt pytEnglish Words Rhyming PANT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PANT AS A WHOLE:
| anticipant | adjective (a.) Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. |
| apanthropy | noun (n.) An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude. |
| countertrippant | adjective (a.) Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant. |
| discrepant | noun (n.) A dissident. |
| adjective (a.) Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different. |
| epanthous | adjective (a.) Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi. |
| episcopant | noun (n.) A bishop. |
| flippant | noun (n.) A flippant person. |
| adjective (a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. | |
| adjective (a.) Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant. |
| flippantness | noun (n.) State or quality of being flippant. |
| hypanthium | noun (n.) A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear. |
| micropantograph | noun (n.) A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute. |
| occupant | noun (n.) One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing. |
| noun (n.) A prostitute. |
| panting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pant |
| pant | noun (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. |
| noun (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart. | |
| verb (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. | |
| verb (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after. |
| pantable | noun (n.) See Pantofle. |
| pantacosm | noun (n.) See Cosmolabe. |
| pantagraph | noun (n.) See Pantograph. |
| pantagruelism | noun (n.) The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule. |
| noun (n.) An assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose. |
| pantalet | noun (n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural. |
| pantaloon | noun (n.) A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. |
| noun (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one. | |
| noun (n.) In recent times, same as Trousers. |
| pantaloonery | noun (n.) The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. |
| noun (n.) Materials for pantaloons. |
| pantamorph | noun (n.) That which assumes, or exists in, all forms. |
| pantamorphic | adjective (a.) Taking all forms. |
| pantascope | noun (n.) A pantascopic camera. |
| pantascopic | adjective (a.) Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera. |
| pantastomata | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. |
| pantechnicon | noun (n.) A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. |
| pantelegraph | noun (n.) See under Telegraph. |
| panter | noun (n.) One who pants. |
| noun (n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. | |
| noun (n.) A net; a noose. |
| panteutonic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to all the Teutonic races. |
| pantheism | noun (n.) The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism. |
| pantheist | noun (n.) One who holds to pantheism. |
| pantheistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pantheistical |
| pantheistical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism. |
| pantheologist | noun (n.) One versed in pantheology. |
| pantheology | noun (n.) A system of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of theology. |
| pantheon | noun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. |
| noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. |
| panther | noun (n.) A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoologists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body. |
| noun (n.) In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar. |
| pantheress | noun (n.) A female panther. |
| pantherine | adjective (a.) Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil. |
| pantile | noun (n.) A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/). |
| pantisocracy | noun (n.) A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days. |
| pantisocrat | noun (n.) A pantisocratist. |
| pantisocratic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy. |
| pantisocratist | noun (n.) One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy. |
| pantler | noun (n.) The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry. |
| pantochronometer | noun (n.) An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. |
| pantofle | noun (n.) A slipper for the foot. |
| pantograph | noun (n.) An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. |
| pantographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pantographical |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PANT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ant) - English Words That Ends with ant:
| abdicant | noun (n.) One who abdicates. |
| adjective (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of. |
| aberrant | adjective (a.) Wandering; straying from the right way. |
| adjective (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. |
| abeyant | adjective (a.) Being in a state of abeyance. |
| abirritant | noun (n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation. |
| abradant | noun (n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc. |
| absonant | adjective (a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. |
| abundant | adjective (a.) Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. |
| acceptant | noun (n.) An accepter. |
| adjective (a.) Accepting; receiving. |
| accomptant | noun (n.) See Accountant. |
| accordant | adjective (a.) Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. |
| accountant | noun (n.) One who renders account; one accountable. |
| noun (n.) A reckoner. | |
| noun (n.) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. | |
| adjective (a.) Accountable. |
| accusant | noun (n.) An accuser. |
| acquaintant | noun (n.) An acquaintance. |
| adamant | noun (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. |
| noun (n.) Lodestone; magnet. |
| adhamant | adjective (a.) Clinging, as by hooks. |
| adjoinant | adjective (a.) Contiguous. |
| adjuvant | noun (n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies. |
| noun (n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient. | |
| noun (n.) An assistant. | |
| noun (n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. | |
| adjective (a.) Helping; helpful; assisting. |
| adjutant | noun (n.) A helper; an assistant. |
| noun (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. | |
| noun (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits. |
| administrant | noun (n.) One who administers. |
| adjective (a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs. |
| adragant | noun (n.) Gum tragacanth. |
| adulterant | noun (n.) That which is used to adulterate anything. |
| adjective (a.) Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes. |
| adumbrant | adjective (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth. |
| affiant | noun (n.) One who makes an affidavit. |
| affirmant | noun (n.) One who affirms or asserts. |
| noun (n.) One who affirms, instead of taking an oath. |
| agglutinant | noun (n.) Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. |
| adjective (a.) Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. |
| aidant | adjective (a.) Helping; helpful; supplying aid. |
| albicant | adjective (a.) Growing or becoming white. |
| alicant | noun (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. |
| aliquant | adjective (a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot. |
| allegiant | adjective (a.) Loyal. |
| alliant | noun (n.) An ally; a confederate. |
| alterant | noun (n.) An alterative. |
| adjective (a.) Altering; gradually changing. |
| altisonant | adjective (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous. |
| altivolant | adjective (a.) Flying high. |
| amarant | noun (n.) Amaranth, 1. |
| ambulant | adjective (a.) Walking; moving from place to place. |
| amplectant | adjective (a.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. |
| annuitant | noun (n.) One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. |
| ant | noun (n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire. |
| apophlegmatizant | noun (n.) An apophlegmatic. |
| appealant | noun (n.) An appellant. |
| appellant | noun (n.) One who accuses another of felony or treason. |
| noun (n.) One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal. | |
| noun (n.) A challenger. | |
| noun (n.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus. | |
| noun (n.) One who appeals or entreats. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to an appeal; appellate. |
| appendant | noun (n.) Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it. |
| noun (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. | |
| verb (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. |
| applicant | noun (n.) One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. |
| appreciant | adjective (a.) Appreciative. |
| appurtenant | noun (n.) Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. |
| adjective (a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. |
| arcboutant | noun (n.) A flying buttress. |
| armisonant | adjective (a.) Alt. of Armisonous |
| arrant | adjective (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. |
| adjective (a.) Thorough or downright, in a good sense. |
| arrogant | adjective (a.) Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. |
| adjective (a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PANT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pan) - Words That Begins with pan:
| pan | noun (n.) A part; a portion. |
| noun (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. | |
| noun (n.) A leaf of gold or silver. | |
| noun (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel. | |
| noun (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented. | |
| noun (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. | |
| noun (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. | |
| noun (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. | |
| noun (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. | |
| noun (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard. | |
| noun (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. | |
| verb (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. |
| panning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pan |
| panabase | noun (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite. |
| panacea | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction. |
| noun (n.) The herb allheal. |
| panacean | adjective (a.) Having the properties of a panacea. |
| panache | noun (n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. |
| panada | noun (n.) Alt. of Panade |
| panade | noun (n.) Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. |
| noun (n.) A dagger. |
| panary | noun (n.) A storehouse for bread. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking. |
| pancake | noun (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. |
| pancarte | noun (n.) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. |
| pance | noun (n.) The pansy. |
| panch | noun (n.) See Paunch. |
| panchway | noun (n.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. |
| pancratian | adjective (a.) Pancratic; athletic. |
| pancratiast | noun (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium. |
| pancratiastic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancratium. |
| pancratic | adjective (a.) Having all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Pancratical |
| pancratical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic. |
| pancratist | noun (n.) An athlete; a gymnast. |
| pancratium | noun (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling. |
| noun (n.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis. |
| pancreas | noun (n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. |
| pancreatic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments. |
| pancreatin | noun (n.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. |
| pancy | noun (n.) See Pansy. |
| panda | noun (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India. |
| pandanus | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine. |
| pandar | noun (n.) Same as Pander. |
| pandarism | noun (n.) Same as Panderism. |
| pandarous | adjective (a.) Panderous. |
| pandean | adjective (a.) Of or relating to the god Pan. |
| pandect | noun (n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. |
| noun (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. |
| pandemic | noun (n.) A pandemic disease. |
| adjective (a.) Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. |
| pandemonium | noun (n.) The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits. |
| noun (n.) An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage. |
| pander | noun (n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. |
| noun (n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. | |
| verb (v. t.) To play the pander for. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act the part of a pander. |
| pandering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pander |
| panderage | noun (n.) The act of pandering. |
| panderism | noun (n.) The employment, arts, or practices of a pander. |
| panderly | adjective (a.) Having the quality of a pander. |
| pandermite | noun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite. |
| panderous | adjective (a.) Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander. |
| pandiculated | adjective (a.) Extended; spread out; stretched. |
| pandiculation | noun (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy. |
| pandit | noun (n.) See Pundit. |
| pandoor | noun (n.) Same as Pandour. |
| pandora | noun (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. |
| pandore | noun (n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. |
| pandour | noun (n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. |
| pandowdy | noun (n.) A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust. |
| pandurate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Panduriform |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PANT:
English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 't':
| packet | noun (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. |
| noun (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. | |
| verb (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. |
| pageant | noun (n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. |
| noun (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. |
| paint | noun (n.) A pigment or coloring substance. |
| noun (n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface. | |
| noun (n.) A cosmetic; rouge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. | |
| verb (v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. | |
| verb (v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it. |
| pairment | noun (n.) Impairment. |
| palaetiologist | noun (n.) One versed in palaetiology. |
| paleobotanist | noun (n.) One versed in paleobotany. |
| paleographist | noun (n.) One versed in paleography; a paleographer. |
| paleologist | noun (n.) One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity. |
| paleontologist | noun (n.) One versed in paleontology. |
| paleophytologist | noun (n.) A paleobotanist. |
| palet | noun (n.) Same as Palea. |
| noun (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale. |
| paletot | noun (n.) An overcoat. |
| noun (n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion. |
| palimpsest | noun (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. |
| palindromist | noun (n.) A writer of palindromes. |
| pallet | noun (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. |
| noun (n.) Same as Palette. | |
| noun (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. | |
| noun (n.) A potter's wheel. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. | |
| noun (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. | |
| noun (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. | |
| noun (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. | |
| noun (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. | |
| noun (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. | |
| noun (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. | |
| noun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. | |
| noun (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons. |
| palliament | noun (n.) A dress; a robe. |
| palmatisect | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palmatisected |
| palmcrist | noun (n.) The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.) |
| palpitant | adjective (a.) Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. |
| palsywort | noun (n.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. |
| paludament | noun (n.) See Paludamentum. |
| pament | noun (n.) A pavement. |
| pamphlet | noun (n.) A writing; a book. |
| noun (n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest. | |
| verb (v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. |
| panegyrist | noun (n.) One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. |
| panhellenist | noun (n.) An advocate of Panhellenism. |
| panslavist | noun (n.) One who favors Panslavism. |
| panspermatist | noun (n.) Alt. of Panspermist |
| panspermist | noun (n.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist. |
| pantologist | noun (n.) One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology. |
| pantomimist | noun (n.) An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes. |
| pantophagist | noun (n.) A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food. |
| papalist | noun (n.) A papist. |
| papboat | noun (n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish. |
| noun (n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing. |
| paperweight | noun (n.) See under Paper, n. |
| papescent | adjective (a.) Containing or producing pap; like pap. |
| papist | noun (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents. |
| parablast | noun (n.) A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. |
| parabolist | noun (n.) A narrator of parables. |
| paracelsist | noun (n.) A Paracelsian. |
| paradoxist | noun (n.) One who proposes a paradox. |
| paragrammatist | noun (n.) A punster. |
| paragraphist | noun (n.) A paragrapher. |
| parakeet | noun (n.) Same as Parrakeet. |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet. |
| parament | noun (n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. |
| paramount | noun (n.) The highest or chief. |
| adjective (a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty. |
| parapet | noun (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. |
| noun (n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate. |
| paraphrast | noun (n.) A paraphraser. |
| paraquet | noun (n.) Alt. of Paraquito |
| parchment | noun (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. |
| noun (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp. |
| parement | noun (n.) See Parament. |
| parent | noun (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. |
| noun (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. |
| parfit | adjective (a.) Perfect. |
| parget | noun (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone. |
| noun (n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. | |
| noun (n.) Paint, especially for the face. | |
| verb (v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. | |
| verb (v. t.) To paint; to cover over. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lay on plaster. | |
| verb (v. i.) To paint, as the face. |
| parliament | noun (n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference. |
| noun (n.) A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws. | |
| noun (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws. | |
| noun (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts. |
| parodist | noun (n.) One who writes a parody; one who parodies. |
| paroket | noun (n.) See Paroquet. |
| paroquet | noun (n.) Same as Parrakeet. |
| parquet | noun (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit. |
| noun (n.) Same as Parquetry. | |
| noun (n.) In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the "agents de change," or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market. | |
| noun (n.) In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured. |
| parrakeet | noun (n.) Alt. of Parakeet |
| parrot | noun (n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. |
| noun (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. | |
| verb (v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot. | |
| verb (v. i.) To chatter like a parrot. |
| part | noun (n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. |
| noun (n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient. | |
| noun (n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element. | |
| noun (n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense. | |
| noun (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural. | |
| noun (n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure. | |
| noun (n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office. | |
| noun (n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction. | |
| noun (n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act. | |
| noun (n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc. | |
| noun (n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. | |
| noun (n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share. | |
| noun (n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. | |
| noun (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver. | |
| noun (n.) To leave; to quit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake. | |
| adverb (adv.) Partly; in a measure. |
| partialist | noun (n.) One who is partial. |
| noun (n.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect. |
| participant | noun (n.) A participator; a partaker. |
| adjective (a.) Sharing; participating; having a share of part. |
| particularist | noun (n.) One who holds to particularism. |
| particularment | noun (n.) A particular; a detail. |
| partitionment | noun (n.) The act of partitioning. |
| partlet | noun (n.) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. |
| noun (n.) A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. |
| parturient | adjective (a.) Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. |
| parturifacient | noun (n.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. |
| pasquilant | noun (n.) A lampooner; a pasquiler. |
| passement | noun (n.) Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. |
| passe partout | noun (n.) That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. |
| noun (n.) A master key; a latchkey. | |
| noun (n.) A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures. |
| passionist | noun (n.) A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross. |
| passport | noun (n.) Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. |
| noun (n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter. | |
| noun (n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. | |
| noun (n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. |
| past | noun (n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by. |
| verb (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. | |
| adverb (adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past. | |
| prep (prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. | |
| prep (prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. | |
| prep (prep.) Above; exceeding; more than. |
| pat | noun (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap. |
| noun (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. | |
| adjective (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a pat manner. |
| patent | adjective (a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. |
| adjective (a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter. | |
| adjective (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. | |
| adjective (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf. | |
| adjective (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. | |
| adjective (a.) A writing securing to an invention. | |
| adjective (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. | |
| adjective (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. | |
| verb (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands. |
| pathologist | noun (n.) One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases. |
| patient | noun (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. |
| noun (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. | |
| adjective (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering. | |
| adjective (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. | |
| adjective (a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. | |
| adjective (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compose, to calm. |
| patriot | noun (n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. |
| adjective (a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic. |
| patrist | noun (n.) One versed in patristics. |
| pauciloquent | adjective (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech. |
| paulianist | noun (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ. |
| paulist | noun (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants. |
| pavement | noun (n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave. |
| payment | noun (n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. |
| noun (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. | |
| noun (n.) Punishment; chastisement. |
| peagrit | noun (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite. |
| peanut | noun (n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit. |
| pearlwort | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family. |
| peart | adjective (a.) Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. |
| peasant | noun (n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. |
| adjective (a.) Rustic, rural. |
| peat | noun (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. |
| noun (n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. |
| peccant | noun (n.) An offender. |
| adjective (a.) Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. | |
| adjective (a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. | |
| adjective (a.) Wrong; defective; faulty. |
| pedant | noun (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. |
| noun (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. |
| pederast | noun (n.) One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite. |
| pediment | noun (n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple. |
| pedobaptist | noun (n.) One who advocates or practices infant baptism. |
| peert | adjective (a.) Same as Peart. |
| peerweet | noun (n.) Same as Pewit (a & b). |
| peevit | noun (n.) Alt. of Peewit |
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